KEY TO NEWS WORKSHEET

This is the key to the vocabulary activities about the news (collocations and phrasal verbs) that we checked in class on Thursday. For those of you who did turn up, you only have to check the collocations activity. Click on the post title.

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I assigned VOCABULARY ACTIVITY: PHRASAL VERBS (page 29) as homework. Please do it if you haven't yet. Here's the key:


2. Text 1: a) turn up   b) fit in   c) gey by   d) catch on
    Text 2: a) fill in    b) do up   c) hold up   d) carry out
    Text 3: a) get through   b) come across   c) see to    d) take to
    Text 4: a) get away from   b) come down   c) come up with   d) keep up with
3. Text 1 c) intransitive; Text 2 a) transitive (1); Text 3 b) transitive (2); Text 4 d) three-part phrasal verbs

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This is the key to the vocabulary page in unit 1 (page 15) about prefixes:

ACT. 1A: multi-talented; semi-professional; sub-standard; unimpressive; superhuman; arch-rivals; overcautious; under-prepared; single-handedly; outplayed; misfired; irrelevant.

ACT.1C: Degree,size,quality: sub-,super-,arch-,over-,under-,out-
Numbers: multi-,semi-,single-,mono-
Opposite/negative: un-,mis-,ir-,in-,im-,de

ACT.2: 1)We completely misunderstood the instructions; 2) I was unaware that you were a vegetarian; 3) I'm semi-retired; 4)That's right. We were completely outnumbered; 5)I'm overweight; 6)Yes, I underestimated the numbers.